The fourth album from this band from USA.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, violin, viola, cello, keyboards and vocals.
Numerous guests added guitars, sitar, cello, piano, flute, narrations, vocals and drum programming.
It seems like Joe Deninzon has now made his ownership of the band known and is on this album regarding the band as his backing band. Joe does the lead vocals here and the violins.
Besides of this change and the wholesale change of the band members, the music is pretty similar to what we got on the first three albums.
Take Kansas like US symphonic prog, add some Jean Luc Ponty like fusion, pomp rock, some US 1970s hard rock and some US arena rock. Yes, this album has the big and bold US sound throughout this album.
Their version of King Crimson's Frame By Frame is a good cover who does not add anything new to this song from their Discipline album.
The music on this fifty minutes long album is in other words melodic and there is a lot of violins, mostly electric violins here. The vocals is good and there is a lot of good songs here.
Not everything here is good. But on balance, this is a good album and one everyone into US symph prog and pomp rock should check out.
3 points
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